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The Protect Young Eyes team is confused. Our speaking team has over six decades working with families in various teaching and ministry roles. None of us has ever met a parent who flat-out didn't care about the safety of their children. Not one. We've met parents...

Supervised Users Were an Awesome Google Feature In a dumbfounding move, on January 12, 2018, Google froze its Supervised User functionality. For many families, this move renders their Chromebooks as unsafe.Google Chromebooks have been sold by the millions, used by schools and families as an inexpensive,...

Parental Controls for Every Tech Gift Christmas is just weeks away! Which means you might have a child who is receiving a new Internet-ready device this year. If that's true, have you considered how to enable parental controls or what filtering and monitoring service will work...

Screen Time – How Much is Too Much? [2600 words - in-depth - 8 minute read]"Chris, how much screen time should I give my kid?" This is the burning question for many parents and educators today, and we hear it often. No one seems to...

Where the Kids Are is Where the Predators Are Tricky people are everywhere.An unfortunate reality in the digital age is that the doorways to our children are everywhere. We no longer just need to lock the front door and windows in our physical home, but we...

What is the Bark Monitoring Solution? In their words, "Bark is an online safety solution powered by advanced algorithms that proactively alerts parents to potential dangers, including cyberbullying, sexting, drug use, internet predators, depression and suicidal thoughts - and provides expert recommendations on how to talk...

Guest Author Post: Scott Reddler has provided this content, along with as awesome info. graphic at the bottom that so clearly shows how digital our kids' world has become. Scott can be reached via Twitter @ScottreddlerChildren interact with technology on a daily basis, and the average...

In this blog post about the App Store, I want to share the #1 step parents can take to protect their kids who have a smartphone. It’s so simple (yet, too many parents don’t do this). The App Store Revolutionized the Smartphone Both Apple and Android devices...

Here's a common objection among parents: “But, if I talk to my son about pornography, I’m afraid it will make him curious about it.” But, is it true? Is it better to wait until kids are older, maybe in middle school, to talk to them about a...

There have been a rash of young teens committing suicide over the past few months. Snapchat seems to be the social media app most often mentioned as a key player in the suicide, giving rise to the phrase Snapchat Suicide. The ephemeral nature of Snapchat...

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